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• Blair, Norvel, 1825-1916
• Brown, Sterling N. (Sterling Nelson), 1858-1929
• Chesney, Pharaoh Jackson, 1781?-
• Holley, J. W. (James W.), 1848-
• Loguen, Jermain Wesley

• Book for the People! To Be Read by All Voters, Black and White, with Thrilling Events of the Life of Norvel Blair, of Grundy County, State of Illinois (Joliet, IL: Joliet Daily Record, 1880), by Norvel Blair (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Family Redeemed from Bondage: Being Rev. Edmond Kelley (the Author), His Wife, and Four Children (New Bedford: The author, 1851), by Edmund Kelly (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Last of the Pioneers, or, Old Times in East Tenn.: Being the Life and Reminiscences of Pharaoh Jackson Chesney (Aged 120 Years) (Knoxville, TN: S. B. Newman and Co., 1902), by Pharaoh Jackson Chesney and J. C. Webster (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• My Own Life Story (Washington, DC: Hamilton Printing, 1924), by Sterling N. Brown (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Old Faithful Servant: Life History of J.W. Holley, Born and Reared a Slave, After Freedom Became a Worker in the Master's Vineyard (Columbus, OH: Inskeep Print. Co., 1924), by J. W. Holley (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Rev. J. W. Loguen, As a Slave and As a Freeman (Syracuse, NY: J. G. K. Truair and Co., 1859), by Jermain Wesley Loguen
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at MOA

• Aunt Dice: The Story of a Faithful Slave (Nashville: Publishing House of the M.E. Church, 1897), by Nina Hill Robinson (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Last of the Pioneers, or, Old Times in East Tenn.: Being the Life and Reminiscences of Pharaoh Jackson Chesney (Aged 120 Years) (Knoxville, TN: S. B. Newman and Co., 1902), by Pharaoh Jackson Chesney and J. C. Webster (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Last of the Pioneers, or, Old Times in East Tenn.: Being the Life and Reminiscences of Pharaoh Jackson Chesney (Aged 120 Years) (Knoxville, TN: S. B. Newman and Co., 1902), by Pharaoh Jackson Chesney and J. C. Webster (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• A Family Redeemed from Bondage: Being Rev. Edmond Kelley (the Author), His Wife, and Four Children (New Bedford: The author, 1851), by Edmund Kelly (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Book for the People! To Be Read by All Voters, Black and White, with Thrilling Events of the Life of Norvel Blair, of Grundy County, State of Illinois (Joliet, IL: Joliet Daily Record, 1880), by Norvel Blair (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• My Own Life Story (Washington, DC: Hamilton Printing, 1924), by Sterling N. Brown (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Old Faithful Servant: Life History of J.W. Holley, Born and Reared a Slave, After Freedom Became a Worker in the Master's Vineyard (Columbus, OH: Inskeep Print. Co., 1924), by J. W. Holley (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Rev. J. W. Loguen, As a Slave and As a Freeman (Syracuse, NY: J. G. K. Truair and Co., 1859), by Jermain Wesley Loguen
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at MOA

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Life of Rev. Thomas James, by Himself (Rochester, NY: Post Express Printing Co., 1886), by Thomas James (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narratives of Colored Americans (New York: W. W. Wood and Co., 1875), by Abigail Mott and M. S. Wood (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Aunt Judy's Story: A Tale From Real Life, Written for the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Fair (Philadelphia: Merrihew and Thompson, 1855), by Matilda G. Thompson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Autobiography of Nicholas Said, A Native of Bournou, Eastern Soudan, Central Africa (Memphis, TN: Shotwell and Co., Publishers, 1873), by Nicholas Said
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Colour; To Which is Added, a Selection of Pieces in Poetry (New York: M. Day, 1826), by Abigail Mott (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements (1863), by William Wells Brown (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• The History of William Webb, Composed by Himself (Detroit: E. Hoekstra, 1873), by William Webb (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• The Last Words and Dying Speech of Edmund Fortis, a Negro Man (1795), by Edmund Fortis (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Life and Adventures of James Williams, a Fugitive Slave, with a Full Description of the Underground Railroad (San Francisco, CA: Women's Union Print, 1873), by James Williams
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and Slave (Boston: Published by Geo. W. Light, 1834), by Phillis Wheatley and Margaretta Matilda Odell
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Narrative of James Roberts, a Soldier Under Gen. Washington in the Revolutionary War, and Under Gen. Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans, in the War of 1812: "A Battle Which Cost Me a Limb, Some Blood, and Almost My Life" (Chicago: Printed for the author, 1858), by James Roberts (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, but Resident Above Sixty Years in the United States of America (originally published 1798), by Venture Smith (Gutenberg text)
• A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, but Resident Above Sixty Years in the United States of America: Related by Himself (New London, CT: Printed by C. Holt, 1798), by Venture Smith
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • page images at Yale
  • HTML at Evans TCP
• A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, but Resident Above Sixty Years in the United States of America (Middletown, CT: J. S. Stewart, 1897), by Venture Smith, ed. by H. M. Selden (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
• Narrative of the Life of J. D. Green, a Runaway Slave, from Kentucky: Containing an Account of His Three Escapes, in 1839, 1846, and 1848 (Huddersfield, UK: Printed by H. Fielding, 1864), by J. D. Green (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narrative of William Hayden, Containing a Faithful Account of His Travels for a Number of Years, Whilst a Slave, in the South (Cincinnati: W. Hayden, 1846), by William Hayden (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Statement with Regard to the Moorish Prince, Abduhl Rahhahman (New York: D. Fanshaw, 1828), by T. H. Gallaudet (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Story of Archer Alexander From Slavery to Freedom, March 30, 1863, by William Greenleaf Eliot (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Uncle Johnson, the Pilgrim of Six Score Years (tract #96; Philadelphia: Presbyterian Publication Committee, ca. 1866), by G. L. Foster (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly: A Domestic Drama in Six Acts (New York: Samuel French, 1858), by George L. Aiken, contrib. by Harriet Beecher Stowe (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at Virginia)

• Blake: or, The Huts of America, by Martin Robison Delany (HTML at Virginia)
• Bond and Free: A True Tale of Slave Times (Harrisburg, PA: E. K. Meyers, 1886), by Jas. H. W. Howard
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Leah Mordecai: A Novel, by Belle K. Abbott (Gutenberg text)
• The Negro Equalled by Few Europeans (3 volumes; London: Printed for the author, 1790), by Joseph Lavallée, trans. by Joseph Trapp (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Negro Equalled by Few Europeans, Translated From the French; To Which Are Added, Poems on Various Subjects, Moral and Entertaining by Phillis Wheatley (2 volumes; Philadelphia: W. W. Woodward, 1801), by Joseph Lavallée and Phillis Wheatley
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The North and South, or, Slavery and Its Contrasts: A Tale of Real Life (Philadelphia: Crissy and Markley, 1852), by Caroline E. Rush (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe (multiple editions)
• Aunt Phillis's Cabin: or, Southern Life As It Is (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co, 1852), by Mary H. Eastman
  • frame-dependent HTML with commentary at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• Oheim Tom's Hütte: oder, Das Leven bei den Niedrigen (Uncle Tom's Cabin in German; Boston: J. P. Jewett und Co.; Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor, und Worthington, 1853), by Harriet Beecher Stowe, trans. by Hugo Rudolph Hutten
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Oroonoko: Or, The Royal Slave, by Aphra Behn (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Slavery Illustrated, in the Histories of Zangara and Maquama, Two Negroes Stolen From Africa and Sold Into Slavery: Related by Themselves (Manchester England: Wm. Irwin; London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1849) (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• Memoirs of a Southerner, 1840-1923, by Edward J. Thomas
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Beyond the Snow: Being a History of Trim's Adventures in Nordlichtschein (Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1873), by P. Fishe Reed (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pictures and Stories from Uncle Tom's Cabin (Boston: John P. Jewett, c1853), contrib. by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin for Children (Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Co., c1908), by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Helen Ring Robinson, illust. by W. M. Rhoads (page images at LOC)
• Uncle Tom's Cabin, Young Folks Edition (Chicago: M. A. Donohue and Company, n.d.), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• More Seeds of Knowledge: or, Another Peep at Charles, by Miss Corner (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.